George Harrison

The Tom Petty/Sam Smith settlement is just one example of how music industry players have handled controversies regarding hit songs with contested pedigrees. Here are some others:

The Rolling Stones, "Anybody Seen My Baby?": The post-"Steel Wheels" Rolling Stones run a pretty tight ship from a commercial standpoint, so everything seemed ready and triple-checked for the 1997 release of "Bridges to Babylon." Everything, that is, until Keith Richards happened to spin an advance...

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The Tom Petty/Sam Smith settlement is just one example of how music industry players have handled controversies regarding hit songs with contested pedigrees. Here are some others:
The Rolling Stones, "Anybody Seen My Baby?": The post-"Steel Wheels"...

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Ravi Shankar was already revered as a master of the sitar in 1966 when he met George Harrison, the Beatle who became his most famous disciple and gave the Indian musician-composer unexpected pop-culture cachet.
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George Harrisonwas recording steadily at the studio in his English country estate until nearly the day he died in 2001. “He loved to record, he was always doing more and more demos at night,” says his widow, Olivia Harrison. “But he’d always say, ‘I’ll...

BULLARD, Ga. — The great room at the Charlane Plantation lodge is spectacularly and authentically rustic in design from its polished hardwood floors to the massive beams high above. It features an impressive stone fireplace and a wooden bar carved from...

Paul McCartney could not just let it be Sunday in the first of two concerts at Wrigley Field. He played for nearly three hours and broke into a James Brown-worthy sweat, wringing new rivers of passion from songs he’s played hundreds of times. The takeaway...